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Politics, News & Issues > Political Issues Should the US continue to honor Columbus Day?: 8 of 20

The U.S. must continue observing Columbus Day. If we don't, then people will forget all about Columbus, one of the most important figures in the history of white Imperialism. God knows, no one teaches anything about history in school - so holidays and PBS specials are pretty much all we have. And, as I think someone wise onc...
Politics, News & Issues > Baseball News & Opinion Baseball's Barry Bonds and the Yankees?: 4 of 10

Barry Bonds will not be returning to the San Francisco Giants. Speculation as to where he will land next season - should he choose to continue his career at all - centers mostly around American League clubs, since it's assumed Barry is no longer able to play the field and will have to DH. The teams most-often mentioned are t...
Entertainment > Hollywood & Movie Industry Everyone's a critic: Evaluating the trend of online movie reviews: 6 of 10

Is any average Joe's opinion of a movie worth as much as that of a professional critic who has gone to college and maybe even film school, and decided to make a career out of studying movies and writing about them? I would say no. The average Joe, first of all, only sees movies that are to his tastes - the critic on the othe...
Entertainment > Movie Reviews Movie reviews: Notes on a Scandal: 9 of 13

Notes on a Scandal is the kind of over-the-top melodrama people like Bette Davis and Barbara Stanwyck used to have a field-day in. Those ladies are dead now though, so instead we get Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench - which isn't too bad either. Judi and Cate play a pair of unlikely friends who are not really friends at all. Ju...
Entertainment > Music Business The case against digital rights management (DRM): 8 of 8

There's a militant, rebel part of me that wants to cry out against DRM as an Orwellian invasion of my privacy. This part of me says that my computer is my computer, and if I download a file to my computer then I should be able to do with that file whatever I please - the same as I can do whatever I please with the hardware i...
Entertainment > Album Reviews Album reviews: 1984, by Van Halen: 6 of 6

I remember when "1984" came out. It was a huge record. Everyone had it. Van Halen videos played on MTV on a seemingly continuous loop. David Lee Roth had hair then, and was just about the coolest guy ever. I say "just about" because the absolute coolest guy ever was Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen, with his signature Fra...